Re: [Sugar-devel] anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:23:41PM -0500, Chris Marshall wrote: Two specific questions come to mind: (1) How does Sugar know that a new top level window has been instantiated? Is there a hook from the X server or what? Here's a short code tour for your enjoyment. I'll start by tracing

[Sugar-devel] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-04 Thread David Farning
Bryan Berry started a great thread about activity development a few days ago. In the initial post he proposed using flash as means of developing content. Before taking the thread any farther I though we should stop and look at what flash actually is. The term flash is often interchangeably used

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
Personally, I don't believe that Sugar Labs the organization needs to be concerned with any of these four points. The question is whether the Sugar *software* is flexible enough to adapt to the needs of its users. Who are we to say what they should install, and what tools they should use to make

Re: [Sugar-devel] anonymous gray activity circles

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey Michael, Did you try applying Sayamindu's patch from the previous email (and did you see the associated screenshot)? I'm surprised it hasn't been cleaned up and pushed by the Sugar dev team by now. -Wade On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Jan

Re: [Sugar-devel] Teaching typing and basic math on the XO (was: Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II)

2009-01-04 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to get hold of Omar Khayyam Moore's Edison Talking Typewriter program and rewrite it in a modern programming language. It ran on an IBM 360 and taught three-year-olds to read and write on a Selectric